
Kyle Kosic helped keep GPT-4 training steady, joined xAI at its launch, and now works on personal AI at River. His career follows the infrastructure that makes ambitious models possible.

After helping build AlphaStar, Grok and the machinery behind xAI, the physicist turned founder is asking a more personal question: who gets to shape the intelligence we use?

Suman Kanuganti is the Co-Founder and CEO of Personal AI, a San Francisco-based platform building memory-first AI for enterprise workforce transformation. A two-time venture-backed immigrant founder, he previously built Aira - an AI-powered accessibility company serving the blind and low-vision community that was recognized by TIME Magazine and Fast Company - before turning his attention to giving everyone a permanent, personalized AI trained on their own knowledge. He holds 10 patents in emerging technologies and has raised $16M for Personal AI, with customers including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile.